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by Raul Lovisoni & Francesco Messina on Cramps Records in 1979.
The album stands as a sort of continuation and completion of the unfinished work Mount Analogue of the French writer and poet René Daumal.
The metaphorical novel in fact tells of a group of mountaineers who want to find out which is the higest peak in the world and set out from Paris to discover and climb it.
After having sailed on a strange route, aboard a boat called “the Impossible”, he lands on the island of Monte Analogogo which is a continent in itself, where he finds a population with strange habits and customs, descendants of the whole world and of all times that, in the same way as the protagonists, hopes to climb the summit.
After a stay in the village of Porto-delle-Scimmie, and some metaphysical considerations on moutaineering, the men face the ascension, almost arriving at the base camp.
In The wet meadows of Monte Analogo Lovisoni and Messina seem to resume from this point where the writing was interrupted to describe the top of the mountain, covered by wet meadows, and in this sense the three compositions of the album represent the atmosphere that breathe on these meadows.
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Raul Lovisoni & Francesco Messina - Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo (Album, LP) (1979).
Label: Cramps Records, Strange Days Records, Die Schachtel, Superior Viaduct.
Art Direction – Gianni Sassi.
Photography By – Giuseppe Buccafusca, Max Marafatto.
Producer – Franco Battiato.
Available on Discogs:
https://www.discogs.com/Raul-Lovisoni-Francesco-Messina-Prati-Bagnati-Del-Monte-Analogo/master/252941
Tracklist:
A Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo 00:00
B1 Hula Om 23:47
B2 Amon Ra 33:04
Raul Lovisoni and Francesco Messina’s seminal LP from 1979 “Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo” not only introduced the world to the work of two gifted composers, but is also notable for being produced by electronic pioneer Franco Battiato. Both central figures within the Italian avant-garde, they were part of a generation of artists who contributed to a radical rethinking of musical practices and composition. They reveal Minimalism as it’s rarely known: with delicate melodies, subtle harmonic interplay and incorporating diverse creative traditions – slowly giving way to an ever-expanding open space. Skirting the outer edges of ambient, new age and experimental music, the LP has a transformative beauty unlike anything else.